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Everyone wears white, and an enlarged portrait of Paul sits on an easel overlooking the quad.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
From Levin's quiet street, the concrete border wall zigzagged up the ridge overlooking Shlomi.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Almost 44 years to the day earlier, Israeli forces had seized the same commanding position overlooking a valley, later turning it into a key base during their two-decade occupation of southern Lebanon.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Tournament director Amelie Mauresmo, herself a former women's world number one, had regularly pointed to the possibility of short two-set matches as the reason for often overlooking the women.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
I was ordered to stand near the breastworks overlooking the inlet between island and mainland.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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